Planned health and safety tree works

Find out about our planned health and safety tree works.

For medium and large-sized trees, it is normal for the tree felling and stump removal to be done in 2 stages. This is due to the differing equipment required.

Every year the council undertakes a cycle of routine health and safety inspections as part of the council's cyclical tree maintenance programme.

The trees are inspected using Visual Tree Assessment (VTA) techniques, a standard approach to tree risk assessment, involving the diagnosis of structural defects, the evaluation of their significance from visible signs and the application of arboricultural biomechanical knowledge.

A number of issues were raised regarding the health of a number of trees. As a result, the following essential arboricultural safety works have been instructed.

Works will take place between August 2024

What we are working on

Location Ward Species Details
Opposite 5 Langley Grove Coombe Vale Whitebeam Fell and grind to 30cm (tree has split in half, the remainder of the tree is extremely one-sided and liable to further failure)
Outside 19 Woodside Road Coombe Vale Horse chestnut Fell and grind to 30cm (major basal decay and hollowing)
Opp LC5 Beaconsfield Road, New Malden Coombe Vale Cherry Fell & grind to 30cm (dead)
Outside 117 Coombe Road Coombe Vale Horse chestnut Fell & grind to 30cm (dead)
Outside 8 Melrose Gardens Coombe Vale Rowan Fell & grind to 30cm (dead)
Outside 15 Risborough Drive Motspur Park & Old Malden East Cherry Fell & grind to 30cm (major basal decay)
Outside 145 Pembury Avenue Motspur Park & Old Malden East Hawthorn Fell & grind to 30cm (major basal decay)
OS 93 Compton Crescent  Chessington South & Malden Rushett Cherry Fell and Grind stump
OS 168 Elgar Avenue Alexandra Apple Fell and Grind stump
Outside 2 to 12 Green Lane Chessington South & Malden Rushett Crab Apple Fell tree
Outside 37 Reynolds Avenue Chessington South & Malden Rushett Cherry Fell & Grind stump
Outside 60 High Street New Malden New Malden Village Golden Rain Remove metal tree guard, fell and Grind stump
OS 4 Langley Avenue Surbiton Hill Plane Crown reduce by 40% - Meet Tree Officer on-site
OS 3 Canbury Avenue Kingston Town Pear Crown reduce 10%
Outside 10 Laburnum Grove Coombe Vale Purple plum Crown lift to 2.5 (low growth obstructing road)
OS 164/166 Elgar Avenue Alexandra Cherry Clear basal growth for sight lines
OS 23/25 The Manor Drive Old Malden Field Maple Clear basal growth to crown break for slight lines 
Left of 1 Norton Avenue Alexandra Maple Prune up lower crown stub cuts over pavement
Outside 28 Kingscote Road Coombe Vale Lebanese apple Remove stakes (very tight)
Opposite 36 Melrose Gardens Coombe Vale Cherry Remove stakes (very tight)

Last Modified: 15/07/2024 12:22:48